Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 90
Then he poured some of the living water into his mouth and he became alive, and gave him a bite of the apple of youth, and he instantly grew young again and stronger than ever.
Who acts: Nedviga · What happens: pour, become, give, grow, bite · To what, where: some, mouth, bite, Nedviga, apple
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nedviga), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 poured | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 poured | nsubj |
| 3 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 poured | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 7 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | compound |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 some | nmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 mouth | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poured | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 became | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 became | nsubj |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 poured | conj |
| 15 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 became | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 poured | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bite | det |
| 21 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 apple | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 apple | det |
| 24 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bite | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 youth | case |
| 26 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 apple | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 grew | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 grew | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 grew | nsubj |
| 30 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 31 grew | advmod |
| 31 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 poured | conj |
| 32 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grew | xcomp |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 grew | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 stronger | cc |
| 35 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 grew | conj |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 ever | case |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 stronger | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past | Nedviga | some | Nedviga's mouth | then | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme into mouth=Destination | ||
| 2 | become | past | Nedviga | alive property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Nedviga not said here | a bite of the apple of youth | Nedviga | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bite=Theme | |||
| 4 | grow | past | Nedviga | again | instantly, young property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | bite | the apple of youth | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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